Category: Future

2026 Goals

2026 Goals

TLDR: Here’s the blog condensed to ~100 words:

2026 Goals

I turn 40 this year. Time to answer three big questions: What’s next for work? Where do we live? How do I make a difference?

My misogi: Build a product, start a small business. Not trying would feel worse than failing.

The priorities: Hit 200 lbs before my birthday. Restart meditation. Take the summer off—even if it means quitting. More 1:1 time with my kids. Monthly dates with my wife. Daily piano.

I’m probably overcommitting. But failure isn’t missing some goals—it’s staying stuck in the same place.

(98 words above)

(1456 words below)

Weigh Under 200 Pounds by Age 40

On March 3, 2020, I weighed 190.6 pounds. I didn’t record my weight again until October 15 that same year—203 pounds. Plus 13 pandemic pounds. And I’ve kept them all for the last five full years.

Time for them to go.

I’m down to 202 now from a recent 208 around Thanksgiving. 2 pounds to go. I turn 40 end of February. This one has a hard deadline.

I actually want to get to 190 or so but sub 200 is the must do. I’ve been making good progress the last 5 week.

The Year’s Big Questions

I’m calling this my extended midlife crisis, and I mean it. Not the cliché kind with a sports car. The real kind where you get laid off, move across the country, get 2 new jobs in 6 months, move back across the country, look at the next decade and realize you don’t want to repeat what you’ve been doing the last 10 years.

Three questions I need to answer this year:

What’s next for work? I’m confident in the near term the answer is entrepreneurship. I want to build something. Make a product, start a small business. Even if it’s small, even if the income is modest. This is a life goal. I also like working with people so I’m not ruling out company employment at some point but at this point I’m mostly at Apple for the money.

Where do we live? Genuinely undecided. Bay Area or somewhere else entirely. This one affects everything. We always wanted to live by the ocean, and now we are. TBD if it’s the long term place though. Living here comes with many major tradeoffs. High costs, marginal housing, California politics, and all the associated day to day frustrations. But

How do I make a difference? I want to get involved, possiably politically. Still figuring out what form this takes—local or national, volunteering or something else.

The Goals

I started with a Top 10 list, but it grew. These are the things that matter. Continue reading “2026 Goals”

Laid off!

Apple leadership made the decision to “wind-down” the Titan program. All of us on T172 were told in an all hands meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

Initially I had feelings of relief, some uncertainty, and excitement. Relief that the leadership finally made a decision and we had clear direction regarding the project’s future. Our project had been furiously working on short term deliverables while having no long term clear direction or vision for almost two years. While it wasn’t the decision I had really hoped for, at least it was a decision. Continue reading “Laid off!”

2021: Goals

Similar to previous years, here are my goals for 2021.

There is no update for 2020. Between buying our house last year in January and February and then covid I’m calling it a total loss in terms of goal achivement.

Maybe a total loss is a bit harsh, but very little was achieved: very little reading, too much eating, muscle atrophy…. it goes on.

 

Continue reading “2021: Goals”